deep sorrow evidently stirred his bosom. At the same time the condition of Mrs. Arnold, who was frantic with grief and apprehension, awakened his liveliest sympathies. "The general went up to see her," wrote

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Hamilton in describing the scene. " She upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child, for she was quite beside herself. One moment she raved ; another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her

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iafant to her bosom, and lamented its fate, occasioned by the imprudence of its father, in a manner that would have moved insensibility itself" Washington believed her innocent of all previous knowledge of her husband's guilt, and did all in his power to soothe her. " She is as good and innocent as an angel, and as incapable of doing wrong," Arnold wi'ote to Washington, from the Vulture, imploring protection for his wife and child. Ample protection was afforded, and Mrs. Arnold and her infant

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were conveyed in safety to her friends. She was the traitor's second wife, and the daughter of Mr. Shippen, a loyalist of Philadelphia ; and she was only eighteen years of age at the time of her marriage to Arnold, while he was military governor of that city, in 1778. The child abovementioned was named James Robertson Arnold. He entered the British army, and rose to the rank of Colonel of Engineers. He was at one time the aide-de-camp of her Majesty, In 1841 he was transferred from the